Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
53.5 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) The ATHENIANS Project and Epigraphic Economies John Traill 148
27.3 Legal Authority Deconstructing an Athenian Decree: IG I3 84 and the Composition of the Inscribed Document John Aldrup-MacDonald 148
45.5 War and its Cultural Implications How the Iliad Narrates Military Command John Esposito 148
17.6 Political and Social Relations Where have all the fabri tign(u)arii gone? CIL XIV 4365 & 4382, a reassessment of the fabri tign(u)arii in Rome and Ostia in the early 4th century CE. John Fabiano 148
31.2 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) Why the Standards Matter for College and University Educators John Gruber-Miller 148
32.5 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) ‘Very much below the other arts of the Grecian people’: Modern Adaptations of Ancient Greek Music, 1841-1932 Jon Solomon 148
51.3 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Odysseus and the Suitors’ Relatives Jonathan Ready 148
28.1 Time as an Organizing Principle Pompey the Great and the Value of the Past in Seneca’s De Brevitate Vitae Jonathan Master 148
56.5 The Power of Place Constantius and the Obelisk: Ignoring the Lessons of History Jonathan Tracy 148
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 7) Phylogenetic profiling and the reception of classical drama Joseph Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri 148
18.6 Translation and Reception Plutarch’s “curiosity” in the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius Joseph Howley 148
13.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Harry Potter and the Descent to the Underworld: Katabasis in the Final Installment of J.K. Rowling's Septology Joseph Slama 148
14.5 Neo-Latin Around the World The Poetry of Paradox: Book I of Petrus Lotichius' Elegies Joseph Tipton 148
5.5 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Fragmentation and Recreation: An Ontology of fluctus and defluere in Augustine’s Confessions Joshua Benjamins 148
13.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Rehabilitating Legal Rule in Statesman and Laws Joshua Blecher-Cohen 148
49.6 The Philosophical Life Sophrosyne: A Platonic Problem for the Homeric Scholia Joshua Smith 148
38.4 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) SI SIC DI: The Fantastic Jupiter of the Fasti Julia Hejduk 148
7.3 Vergil and Tragedy “Virgil’s Tragic Shepherds” Julia Scarborough 148
65.4 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Recovering from Civil Strife in Classical Eretria: The Artemisia at Amarynthos Julia Shear 148
19.3 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Animals and the Development of Ancient Pharmacopias Julie Laskaris 148
11.2 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio Truth, autopsy and the supernatural in Cassius Dio Julie Langford 148
51.5 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Odysseus’ Success and Demise: Recognition in the Odyssey and Telegony Justin Arft 148
22.3 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Coroplastic Commemoration of Performance: Dramatic Identity and Viewership in Ancient Corinth Justin Dwyer 148
17.3 Political and Social Relations Not Set in Stone: The Asculum Bronze and the Durability of Political Alliances in the late Republic Kathryn Steed 148
16.6 Genre and Style Trust and Charm: Late Hellenistic Authors on the Value of Poetry Kathryn Wilson 148
45.2 War and its Cultural Implications Thucydides on Coercive Martial Manliness, Virtue, and Rape Kathy Gaca 148
54.2 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Life After Transition: Spontaneous sex change and its aftermath in ancient literature Kelly Shannon 148
50.1 Use and Power of Rhetoric More Nobly Great Than the Famed Iliads: The Rhetoric of Encomia to Seventeenth-Century English Translators of Horace and Virgil Kenneth Draper 148
16.4 Genre and Style Situating the Problemata Genre in the Context of Hellenistic Exegesis Kenneth Yu 148
18.1 Translation and Reception The Callias of Aeschines Socraticus and the Meaning of διαφορά at Athenaeus 5.220b Kevin Muse 148
51.7 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Nostos and Metanostos : The Itineraries of Paris, Menelaus, and Cretan Odysseus Kevin Solez 148
62.1 Insult, Satire, and Invective Did Palladas Produce an Iambic Collection for Constantine? Kevin Wilkinson 148
1.2 Representing Gender Gender Nonconformance in Phaedrus’s Fabulae Kristin Mann 148
16.3 Genre and Style Much Food in Fallow Ground? Nemean 7 and the Enigmatic Tradition Kyle Sanders 148
41.3 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Silent Virtue: Pliny’s Verginius Rufus as Imperial Exemplar Laura Garofalo 148
18.3 Translation and Reception Not a Gadfly: When a Crucial Reading Goes Wrong Laura Marshall 148
8.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. Χείρων, Hitt. kiššeraš dUTU uš and Rudrá ‘of healing hand’ Laura Massetti 148
55.2 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) The Auditory Sublime from Vergil to Lucan Laura Zientek 148
31.4 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) Material Culture and the Greek and Latin Classroom Liane Houghtalin 148
20.3 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western Gender and Focalization in the Reception of Classical Myth Lillian Doherty 148
52.2 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic The Political Economy of Empire: Land, Law and the Census Lisa Eberle 148
16.1 Genre and Style Post Longa et Tristia Dyaboli Bella: Allegory and the End of the Aeneid Luca D'Anselmi 148
30.5 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Sovereignty and Coinage. The case of the late cistophori of Tralles Lucia Carbone 148
53.3 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) The presence of Italian bankers in the ID and their participation in the economic life of the Delian sanctuary (3rd - 2nd century BCE) Lucia Carbone 148
20.2 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western In aedibus Aldi: classical places and classical texts in Bembo’s De Aetna Luke Roman 148
27.1 Legal Authority Alia tota serenda fabula: documentary fantasies in Livy’s Trials of the Scipios Lydia Spielberg 148
68.2 Ritual and Magic A New Explanation, Based on Near Eastern Sources, for the Greek Use of Squill in Purification Rituals Maddalena Rumor 148
53.2 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) Merchant associations and domestic cults as economic agents in late Hellenistic Delos Mantha Zarmakoupi 148
50.5 Use and Power of Rhetoric Empire and Invention: The Elder Pliny’s Heurematography (NH 7.191-215) Marco Romani Mistretta 148
67.2 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Is Foucault Useful for the Study of the Ancient Prison? The View from Archaic Poetry and Greek Tragedy Marcus Folch 148